Hollywood’s Incompetence At Fathoming America’s AI Future (From The National Interest)

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Jetsons, Hollywood has long misread America’s tech future. The real AI story will be written by innovators – not screenwriters.

Hollywood and its legions of entertainment writers, actors, and directors are going to have next to nothing to do with identifying the vision, let alone the components, of America’s artificial intelligence (AI) future. The sooner we all realize this, the better.

Hollywood does have a character role to play on this topic, that of sometimes producing good or insightful entertainment. The more important actors in America’s real-life, real-high-stakes AI drama are the ethical scientists and engineers who aspire to build a better world and are doing so.

Paul Steidler discusses this in the Op-Ed in The National Interest here.